in a world-record time alongside Laura Trott, Dani King and Elinor Barker a day earlier.

Analysis

Jamie StaffOlympic gold medallist and BBC cycling pundit

“Jason Kenny is always honest, that’s what I like about him. He knows he messed up. Once you’re at the back and the pace starts to pick up, it’s very hard to get around other riders. You’ve got to have an extremely good turn of speed to get over them. He popped up on the inside at one point but you’re taking a gamble there – sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. He’ll be reflecting a lot on that one.”

“I’ve had a bit of a nightmare summer with illness and injury. This weekend was a really big target for me and all the hard work has paid off,” the 24-year-old Olympic gold medallist told BBC Sport.

Archibald, the lone Scottish competitor racing for trade team Braveheart at this World Cup, perfectly paced her ride to overhaul Poland’s Eugenia Busak for bronze. The 19-year-old had already won silver in Friday’s women’s scratch race.

“That was a fantastic ride by Katie,” said Rowsell. “[Busak] was four seconds up at one point but I thought ‘keep the faith’. She’s only 19, she’s at that age where she’s constantly improving. She’s a really exciting young rider, which is what we need now.”

he breezed through the qualifying rounds here but left himself too much ground to cover from the back in the final.

“Right from the word go it started going pear-shaped and I never got in the race,” Kenny told BBC Sport.

“We just looked at the video now and there were a few split-second moments where I could have made some inroads, but I missed it.”

In the points race, Irvine initially appeared off the pace following his ride in the individual pursuit earlier on Saturday – but he recovered to beat Denmark’s Lasse Norman Hansen by 20 points to 17, earning the winning points in the last sprint.

“I was probably the laziest guy in the first half of the race, but I seem to rise to the top the nastier the race gets,” said the 28-year-old, who is the world champion in the scratch race, another non-Olympic endurance event.

Jon Dibben finished fifth overall for GB in the men’s omnium, won by Belgian teenager Jasper de Buyst, while Andy Tennant was sixth in the men’s individual pursuit.